"Living Well: What Do Pleasure and Happiness Have to Do with It?" is the topic at the Tea & Ethics discussion on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 3:30 p.m. in the Edwards Recital Hall. The talk is free and open to the public.

Cliff Sosis, a lecturer in CCU's Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, will discuss reasons why one might resist or reject a reductionistic theory of well-being.He will argue that the term "well-being" refers to a natural phenomenon and that the method we traditionally use to evaluate accounts of well-being is of limited usefulness. As an alternative, he will defend a pleasure-seeking conception of well-being called "dynamic hedonism."

Sosis earned a bachelor's degree from Ithaca College and a doctorate degree from Florida State University, both in philosophy. At Florida State, he became interested in examining "the good life" from a nontraditional perspective and wrote a dissertation on the philosophy and psychology of well-being. After graduate school, he taught briefly at Mississippi State University, after which he joined the CCU faculty in 2013.

   The Tea & Ethics series is sponsored by the Jackson Family Center for Ethics & Values. The Recital Hall is in room 152 of the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, located at 133 Chanticleer Drive W. in Conway.